Weaknesses: Wish the fork came in black. Black forks tend to be more popular overall. Fox wants you to spend more for the Talas forks to get the black color. The Talas forks offer too much travel for my purposes. You can order the 2011 aftermarket sticker kit directly from fox if you want to match a black bike better.

Bottom Line:

I have the QR15 Thru-Ax version and I will never go back to standard QR. I've always been a firm QR believer and thought upgrading to QR15 or QR20 was a waste of money. I loved my RockShox Dart 3 on my old Scott hardtail and for the most part, the RockShox Recon Silver TK that came with my Trek Fuel EX5 was decent... then came this Fox 32 F-Series 120 Kashima QR15. Wow, was I totally wrong about QR15. The Fox F-Series QR15 makes your bike feel as stable as a roller coaster car on a roller coaster track. I've heard people talk about not picking lines with certain awesome forks. This IS one of those awesome forks. I don't consider myself a fast XC downhiller and tend to take my time going down hill. I blasted through a stretch of trail that I normally take my sweet time on ON THE FIRST RIDE with this fork. Any fork better than this fork would have to have wings. This fork can be on the expensive side but you just have to watch the deals. For the purposes of this review and the price I purchased the fork at, the value rating is definitely a 5.